At first you see cottages, boats and trees. Then they come together as a face, and the landscape becomes difficult to see in quite the same way. Ukrainian artist Oleg Shupliak calls these works dvovzory: images in which several scenes coexist, inviting the eye to move between them.
A sun, an umbrella, a train, a heart. Familiar things take shape in a handful of coloured pixels in Shigetaka Kurita’s emoji set. These 176 symbols appeared on NTT DOCOMO phones in 1999 and later became part of the collection at New York’s MoMA.
Tall letters, long diagonals and a title set on a single line. This early Star Wars logo offers a glimpse of the identity before the familiar heavy, outlined lettering.
Created in 1968, the National Film Board of Canada symbol brings a person and an eye into one concise form. A look at its history and applications.